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Isn't HN amazing? Here is the same article submitted on no less than four previous occasions:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185226

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170972

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355548

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167834

Total upvotes: 29.

Total discussion: 0.

No wonder people try to game the system and find optimal times to submit things.

No wonder people think HN is broken.
I think that's easy for you to say. But I bet it really, really hurts for the many folks who genuinely worked their asses off to see Zynga succeed. You put in that kind of effort only to watch your boss get rich while you get screwed?

You take Pincus and company, tie their fates to that of the employees, and everyone loses together? Fine, whatever. Like you said, they played the lottery. But the mismatch of fates is, to me, what makes this story pretty damn sad.
Your argument is that you wouldn't want to live in a building where the tenants hadn't undergone background checks and credit checks, and that this increases risk. My argument is that they obviously don't do much to protect the host anyway, if plenty of landlords have horror stories. I've talked to every AirBnB host I've stayed with (and I've stayed with a few) about this and not one had anything negative at all to say about their guests.

I would suggest trying AirBnB a little and looking at what the people who actually use the service are like first without worrying about some kind of imagined stranger danger.
No, that's wrong. As resolution increases, the relative effect of hinting and fitting drops to zero. On high resolution displays they will look increasingly indistinguishable.
Same. As I was watching the video, I thought "this would be a great project to do", rather than "I'd pay a lot of money for this".
Complimentary ("Expressing a compliment; praising or approving.") does makes sense, but I believe you mean complementary ("Combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize each other's qualities.")
I don't actually develop AIR apps but I've only seen them noticeably in the form of front-end because of the cross-compatibility with Operating Systems. From this I've come to think of it as a more desktop (opposed to browser) aware version of Flash.
It seems that the appropriate comparison would be donating to Debian:

http://www.debian.org/donations
I also agree it should be at current assets as well. no one should really count on the intangibles (particularly not goodwill)

What is the "short term investments" line item on the balance sheet under current assets? Are those corporate bonds or other highly liquid assets?
Awesome overview of every aspect of the process, it's really a great glimpse into the head of the creator. Also I'm inspired to try the "fuck it" method, I too am usually a perfectionist and thus have shipped very few things.
The ridiculously slow startup time of the default Android emulator makes app development excruciating. This article is the first one I'll be reading on getting back into Android development.
Yes. Precedent: grocery chains w/ club cards.
Ask HN: What happened to the +1 button on Google Search results?
I actually found this useful to track sites / content that I continually searched for.

On my Google Plus account it shows +1's but I can't +1 any more stuff!

Can anyone shed light on this or let me know if I can enable this feature?
Could someone who didn't see this coming please explain to me how there was another outcome for this company?

I'm being completely serious. When I read headlines like this I just assume this happened at least nine months ago. I'd like to hear some reasoned defense of how this company was going to survive.
Right, but again, heartbreaking is hyperbolic. Heartbreaking is when you are a coal miner and you have the mine collapse on you and you die like a trapped rat. This is just a raw deal.
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Zynga is structured such that Mark Pincus has a majority of the voting shares (50.15% to be exact). This means he cannot be fired nor can any takeover occur without his consent.
Good idea - I appreciate your response
Would like to hear more on the relationship between Nokia and Intel. It always seemed like Intel was only in it half-way whether with Moblin or Meego.
That's really special. And appropriate here.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2006/Mar/130

Just some food for thought concerning package ecosystems.
Looking at my Kindle Keyboard, I have one book (Moonwalking with Einstein) that is ragged-right and another (On Intelligence) that is full justified. Perhaps it's the formatting of the e-book and not the device?
Linux: Use the source, Luke
Superior Wall Beds has something very similar, albeit much more expensive: http://calgarywallbeds.com/products/desk-bed.cfm
Try having content before making announcements - you only get one shot at making a first impression.
I've owned a Kindle 2 (returned it within 30 days), Nook Touch (sold it), Kindle Touch (soon to sell it), and now the Kindle Paperwhite.

The Paperwhite is clearly superior to all of them. Gruber's points are all extremely nitpicky.

(1) It's not a big deal to move your thumb an inch to tap the screen. The device is so light that I suspect it would be hard to make a button with just the right resistance so that it could be easily pressed while holding it in one hand. But seriously, moving your thumb isn't hard. Gruber also harps on not being able to operate large screen Android phones with one hand. Just use both hands for crying out loud.

(2) The default Caecilia font is great. I think it's beautiful. Gruber loved picking on Droid Sans, but I think that's a great font too.

It's a worthy upgrade to any of the previous e-ink Kindles.
If you are not happy with being in the trenches, it is simple, get out of the trenches.

...Who often had little to no say in the outcome?

No Choice? If you are unhappy, find a new job.

Edit: formatting
I like it much better than the Keyboard + Cover. If it is "worth it" is up to you, but I don't have buyer's remorse.
I think this is occurring because of some news released by Microsoft on Monday - Flash will now be packaged with IE by default. This provides a better user experience - never need to download and install/update Flash, but they provide a way to keep it secure. Heard it on today's Security Now.

http://twit.tv/show/security-now/373
Russia Today? Seriously?
Hmm, all right. Although I'm not a big fan of Flash, myself, I try to take advantage of the HTML5 (what I can squeeze from my little knowledge of), apart from TweetDeck, though, what are some good apps to check out made in AIR, that you use?
I also use this daily, and have the same problem. I suppose this speaks to the weakness others have expressed (in using a premade configuration setup vs. slowly rolling your own), but I have otherwise found spf13-vim very useful.
I made another reply here - MS will be packaging Flash automatically with IE...so it may be a little bit of a helping hand for Flash, while trying to keep it secure.
Are you restarting the emulator often? You can just start it up once and then redeploy the app to the already running emulator...
Make sure to enable snapshots when creating an emulator. It will still have the ridiculous startup the very first time, but after that startup is quick and shutdown is slow. Much in line with what the blog author is saying, this feature was added after the initial launch and isn't checked by default.

Also make sure you aren't closing the emulator each time you finish running. Just leave it open in the background and running the app again later will deploy to the same instance as last time without any startup at all.

Sorry if you know all this, you'd be surprised how many people don't at Android meetups and the like. :)
Ok- I would add "focused" to that list. If you're a 20 year old working on your first startup 100 hours a week then you may not need a to-do list for life (although you should certainly use one for your development!). For the rest of us, there is way too much that can possibly be done every day - and some framework for prioritization / tracking becomes essential.
Well to plays devil's advocate, the coal miner is working in a coal mine because he did not get a superior education.

You can argue about why, but I am willing to bet (I don't know anyone working at Zynga) that many of these employees still have tens of thousands of dollars in college loans and seeing the sacrifices they made to get into a position in order to pay them off, erased in a matter of weeks, makes them feel like trapped rats.

I never really like these comparison though because why is a ditch digger better or worse than a computer programmer? Both hold basically the same desires. Why should one's misfortune be less important than another? They both work just as hard?
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"Silicon Valley developers, one of the highest paid professions"

Based upon the number of hours the people who I knew at Zynga were putting in - IMHO they were far from receiving a good rate when looked at hourly.

100k at 60-70+ hrs per week in a place with some of the highest living costs is not all that admirable of pay if you ask me. Yes they are not on the street but its not exactly the bees' knees either.
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You don't design public policy based on the interests and controls of one single private company.
I would like to toss in that I am a beginning programmer: Not nearly good enough to fix the bugs, but I can read code and help comment it, change it to make it stylistically compliant, etc.
This seems ripe for a good hack, maybe harvest ID fingerprints via war driving and stationary scanners and then post the creepiest mapping mashups the law allows?

Bonus points if the scanning is pulled off with drones flying in public airspace.
Wing Commander Privateer[1] was one of my favorites back in the day. A chance to do the same but in a MMO like environment would be awesome.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander:_Privateer
Wow, after all this time I never realized there was no topic downvote. Thanks for the info.
Solving crashes due to high res assets in Android apps
>(1) It's not a big deal to move your thumb an inch to tap the screen.

No, but it IS annoying.

"It's not big deal" is defensive. It conveys the opposite message, that it _is_ kind of a deal.
Thanks, typo.
Colin, I find it amazing that you did not confess that you were one of the people who submitted a duplicate of this story, your duplicate being the most recent:

4167834: zmanji 105 days ago

4170972: VeXocide 104 days ago

4185226: moobirubi 101 days ago

4355548: ColinWright 63 days ago

Especially given your fight against duplicated stories:

"My intention in doing what I did was always to try to create value by reducing duplication (and thereby reducing wasted effort)"

Glass houses?
Alternate explanation: the cop was going to pull you over anyways, for whatever reason ("improper lane change" is a synonym for "I need to write someone a ticket now"), and, once he did so, he ran the plates like the police always do when they pull someone over... and poof! there's his ticket to write.
I don't think Facebook is much interested in gaming. If anything they'd buy another social network company.
So, what you are saying is, I should buy all of Zynga's stock, lay everyone off, close up shop and sell all it's real estate, and keep the cash for myself.
This is deplorable, of course, but that's the way the scam works. It's only remarked upon when the short position of the executive team is so obvious.
This is _precisely_ why I live in Berlin and not in SF.
I think, regardless of socio-economic status, "severely injured/dead" is worse than "only made 120k and I'm in debt".
I don't know if I would go as low as net-net (current assets less all liabilities). The building is probably worth approximately what they paid for it. There is probably some furniture and computers and things that may or may not be worth their carrying value (depreciation is supposed to account for the decline in resale value).

It is always a bit sad when a company is worth less than the sum of its parts. I don't think Zynga is quite there, yet, but I don't think it is worth very much unless and until they sit down and learn how to run a business. I won't be investing in it.

You are correct that short term investments would be stocks or bonds or term deposits or any other highly liquid assets. Generally, they are as good as cash.
Uhh, OS X has always had hinting; however, it doesn't use the hinting included in the font.
Your comment is so isolated from the real world, and the very fundamentals of humanity, that I have to wonder how old you are and if you even have a girlfriend. Let alone kids.

The comment you wrote is something I would have written 17 years ago on a Prodigy bulletin board forum after I just finished reading some selected essays of Ayn Rand.
they don't mention NSPR. is it dead?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/
I would like to pay the folks that manage the wonderful apt software repository. Not one red cent to the Unity team, though. I don't like where they are taking Linux.
If the devs were using unvested stock options to back a mortgage … well, they all make enough money for a single hour long consultation with a tax accountant who would have told them what a stupid idea that is. If they're paying out their mortgage from salary, well then, there's nothing particularly notable about their situation, is there?
I'm not particularly surprised. The mathematics here is generally pretty basic material which other things build on top of -- and as you say, your crypto background helps with those questions.

I don't remember seeing any emails from you... did you submit your answers?
Sorry, but I have to correct a little bit here. Today's GPUs are

- not simple SIMD. NVIDIA calls it SIMT (single instruction multiple thread), mostly since you can branch a subset of them, so for the programmer it does feel somewhat like threads.

- not just optimized for Graphics anymore. E.g. since Fermi, the Tesla cards have DP performance = 50% of SP - which has been specifically introduced for HPC purposes. They have also constantly improved the schedulers to go more into general purpose computing, e.g. Kepler 2 seems to support arbitrary call graphs on the device. Again, that's useless for graphics.

- suitable for pretty much all stencil computations. Even for heavily bandwidth bounded problems GPUs are generally ahead of CPUs since they have very high memory bandwidth. The performance estimate I use for my master thesis comes out at 5x for Fermi over six core Westmere Xeon for bandwidth bounded and 7.5x for computationally bounded problems.

HPC is all about performance per dollar, performance per watt - and (sadly) sometimes linpack results because some institution wants to be in the top of some arbitrary list. In all of these aspects GPUs come out ahead of x86, which has been very dominant since the 90ies. Which is why GPUs are now in 4 of the top 20 systems - each of those are hundreds of millions of dollars in investments. That wouldn't be done if they weren't suitable for most computational problems.
>I think that's easy for you to say. But I bet it really, really hurts for the many folks who genuinely worked their asses off to see Zynga succeed. You put in that kind of effort only to watch your boss get rich while you get screwed?

How is that different from 99% of jobs out there? People flipping burgers work crazy shifts with shitty compensation only to watch the franchise owners getting filthy rich.
I'm sure he doesn't give a fuck.

Why are you getting so high and mighty, turning your nose when the guy just reached out to you and offered you a job?
Nope, not annoying either.
Really cool idea! Maybe add a monitor frame, rigged to the underside of the bed, so the user can have a monitor "on" the desk?
I think I (sorta) understand your reasoning, but it doesn't make much sense to me. When I write some application that makes it easier for my clients to do some previously complex tasks and I ask them to tip me, I don't expect them to tell me that the previous system or database did most of what made my work possible.

These "donations" aren't just there to thank developers for past works, but also to equip the distro so that it can improve and continue to push the envelope its way.

Ubuntu's users chose to download and install Ubuntu, not Debian, probably because they like whatever Ubuntu does that you find so insignificant and that other distros aren't doing. I suspect that you too are running Ubuntu, not Debian, for the same reasons.

When Ubuntu asks for money, that's because Ubuntu needs it to keep doing those insignificant Ubuntu stuff, that made you choose to install it, not Debian. So, don't bring up Debian.

When Linux Mint started their own distro, they didn't go all the way down to Debian. Ubuntu probably did something worthwhile, that Mint would rather not do themselves. But people who installed Mint didn't install Ubuntu, so when Mint asks for donations, it's for Mint stuff. Let's not bring up Ubuntu.

This is written on Debian's donation page (http://www.debian.org/donations):

While all donations are welcome, it is especially hoped that any businesses that make money through Debian (CD manufacturers, support companies, or even businesses that rely on Debian for day to day operations) will contribute a percentage of their profit to help make Debian the best OS it can be.

Get it? help make Debian the best OS it can be. Let's not bring up GNU or Linux.
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Hosted Message Oriented Middleware?
Would you or your organization have a use for essentially a heroku specifically for message oriented middleware (Active,RabbitMQ,...)?

A public API where traffic is hosted could cut down on administration costs.

But I am wondering how worth it it would be?

I would appreciate some direction.
Mob hotels generate value in the hotel market the way an illegal tire fire generates value in the waste management market.
As discussed on Security Now: http://twit.tv/show/security-now/373
Box Now Has 92% Of Fortune 500
>Well to plays devil's advocate, the coal miner is working in a coal mine because he did not get a superior education.

Which is heartbreaking in itself, on top of the bloody mine crushing on him.

You say it like this argument somehow makes the Zynga case more heartbreaking, instead of less...

>I never really like these comparison though because why is a ditch digger better or worse than a computer programmer? Both hold basically the same desires. Why should one's misfortune be less important than another? They both work just as hard?

No, they don't. And they don't get the same compensation either. Or job satisfaction -- the ditch digger pretty much works that job because he has to support himself / his family and he doesn't have the means to get something different. The computer programmer could have been 10 other things if he wanted, from tech support to floor manager at a Costco.

Really, try ditch digging for a year, and then we'll talk.
I agree on most points, and made the same upgrade (Keyboard to Paperwhite).

I love it, but I have three gripes. Two of them the author mentioned: uneven lighting at the bottom and the lack of physical pageturning buttons. The latter of which is not nitpicky as luigi has stated, it does fundamentally change your most common interaction with the device.

The third problem is that I have to go in to settings to turn off wireless. Their 8-week claim only works if there is no wireless on; otherwise it lasts a paltry couple of days. The old Keyboard model allowed you to turn on/off networking while reading a book. This version forces you to go to the home screen, then to settings, turn off networking, back to home, and finally back to your book. That's obnoxious.
Oh, well, if Luigi says so.

Leave a little room for the possibility that others are annoyed by things that you are willing to tolerate.
misterS might be suggesting more job offers for Pinkie Pie
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Of course not. :)
That's not really a good thing either...
And this is why I love HN.

I found myself nodding along in full agreement with the GP, then doing the same, after reading the top rebuttal.

/enqueues 10 minutes of self-loathing, for being so fickle minded. ;)
I'd pay for a light laptop with XUbuntu (xfce) and 3 years of support so that everything just works.
Wow. Now THATS an ad hominem fallacy!
This image tells the story of Nokia:
http://i.imgur.com/OWm3O.jpg
I just recently started playing around with Android development and searching for information on how to speed up the emulator. I never found this information. After following these steps I actually a have usable emulator; even the startup time is now more reasonable.
It is baffling that analysts can essentially divide their guidance by 2 overnight. With such "guidance", it's easy for small investors to get fleeced. And with everyone in the industry gloating about how we saw it coming, it's only going to make us all look a little less trustworthy. It's a shame too, because many called out Zynga's business model as unsustainable, even though that didn't get much coverage in the financial or mainstream press.
Obvious really. Kids aren't coming to school? Chip them and punish them if they don't carry their card or aren't where they're supposed to be. Much better than thinking about the long term and figuring out, oh I don't know, why they're not coming to school and fixing that.

There was an educator from the US speaking at a conference I was at last week, and it honestly felt like stealing her passport and return tickets so she couldn't go home would be a kind thing to do.
Is it just me or does 'paperwhite' sound all to similar to 'paperweight'? Not a good association if you ask me
I wish Amazon would hire some competent UX people. I love the screens and hate hate hate hate hate hate hate using their devices. I'll put up with the iPad screen to read at night because the Kindle software works better on it. W. T. F.? I'm waiting for an e-ink screen with physical page turn buttons, with no other UI than the absolutely bare minimum to read books. I don't want a keyboard, or a web browser, or even a store. Please, just a THING that lets me read. Does such a device exist? Of course, content is king and therefore no single device will ever suffice, which is maddening in its own special way.
How is this tracking? It's an rfid tag with the serial number on it so that they can scan it to bring up the person in their computer system to do things like pay for lunch, vote in student elections, and scan them when entering a classroom for attendance. I seriously don't understand how this is an evil tracking microchip. Most companies already use these for building access, so I don't see why using it for simple things at school is insane; it isn't a GPS chip, it just gives a serial number when scanned... this isn't some kind of dangerous chip.